South Sudan VP summons Murle community leaders in Juba

February 19, 2013 (JUBA) – Murle community leaders were summoned by the country’s Vice President, Riek Machar, following the brutal killing of 118 people in Akobo County, which was carried out by the Pibor county-based rebels.

South Sudan’s Vice President Riek Machar (Reuters)

The group of uniformed predominantly Murle rebels loyal to David Yauyau intercepted and killed 104 Lou-Nuer civilians, mostly women and children, while they were on their seasonal migration from Walgak area to water sources north of Akobo county.

South Sudanese army (SPLA) also lost 14 soldiers in the attack while trying to repel the attackers.

The incident is a setback to the ongoing efforts to reconcile the rival communities in the state, officials say.

On Sunday, South Sudan’s Vice-President Riek Machar led a high-level security and humanitarian delegation to the scene of the attack where they paid their condolences to the bereaved families and reassured the affected populations of the government’s commitment to disarm all the civil populations in the state.

During the visit of the Vice-President to Walgak, chiefs and elders in the area expressed frustration over what they said was government’s negligence, which left them vulnerable to the “defying” armed Murle community and their home grown rebels of Yauyau.

On Monday after his return from Jonglei, Machar summoned Murle leaders who are officials in the executive and parliament at both national and Jonglei state’s level to consult with them on the role they should play to end insecurity in Pibor county.

In a statement to the press after the meeting, Ismail Konyi, a Murle elder and member of parliament said their delegation briefed the Vice President on their recent efforts on peace in Pibor county.

He said they failed to have direct contact with the rebel leader David Yauyau in their attempt to persuade him to make peace with the government.

Konyi said the Murle leaders were committed to find Yauyau and persuade him to end the rebellion. He however warned that the government may be forced to take other measures to end the rebellion if Yauyau refused to make peace.

The community leaders were also expected to consult with the President of the Republic, Salva Kiir Mayardit, on Tuesday, in the presence of the Vice President and security ministers, on what course of action to take in order to bring the rebellion of Yauyau to an end.

Armed Murle youth have also joined the rebellion to avoid disarmament in Pibor area and are the main source of insecurity to their neighboring communities in a cycle of revenge attacks.

Last year Vice-President Machar thwarted an organized revenge attack on Murle by 12,000 heavily armed youth of Lou-Nuer who accused the government of failure to disarm the neighboring tribe following the killing of hundreds of their community members.

The youth, who then acquired new guns from another Jonglei’s rebel group under the command of late George Athor, publicly revealed that their mission was to capture the whole Pibor County, home of Murle, and impose their authority over the county for three months to disarm them by force on behalf of the government.

The angered youth in December 2011 captured a Murle town of Linkwangole near the Pibor county headquarters and further matched towards other interior parts of Murle areas.

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20 February 2013 05:07, by Mi diit

The Murle will not stop rebellion or disarm voluntarily. They should be disarmed by force like the other communities so that they don’t take advantage and kill others who are disarmed. Yau yau should also face force as a rebel so that he surrenders. Khartoum is controling him and will not make peace.

This is needed to be made loud and clear to Murle leaders; do they need a peaceful coexistence or hostility among our communities? They have to make it clear what their option is because all the communities are running out of tolerance. Their problems against other communities should not be the one that must be heard all the times!

Well.Eventhough Murle are summoned all including their useless MPs.Ismail Konyi is the source of all these problems and he must face justices. These are his Murle people that he must be laid off the parliament since he has no people to represent.Death to Murle and their associates
The Nuer Empire

Murliel Agent:Gusloy,zeelu.Murle deserve to be called hyena as they eat rotten things like scavengers.No doubt that you are scavengers who survive by eating throughout the year in the jungle.Cowards! Murle are very primitive with the highest rate of illitracy.Almost 0.00000000001% can read and write as compared to 60% of Nuer population who know how to read and write.
The Nuer Empire

BIG FOOL Kuol Manyang, the garbage collector at the used to old garages in Jonglei malakal should be fired seriously and they put A nuer Governor. why always Dinkas Governing Jonglei
KUOL MANYANG to be fired only is the solution.
Weak leadership is proven by him.

Nuer vampire
You are dumb coward with no vision at all. look at you now trying to tell me that you speak my language? I think you were raise by murle family when your father and mother sale you to murle that’s why you trying heard to speak my language.

Murle Agent:My genetic make up(DNA)is purely from Nuer.I’m true-to-type holding Nuer Genetic materials which can not be contaminated with non productive Murle ’s DNA. Once more Guzuloy,Zelu.You even don’t know the meaning since you are just a pretender.
The Nuer Empire

Murle Agent
Your comments doesn’t make sence of Intellectual debate either solution nor of defending. please if you could accept my advice, don’t insult all Dinka or Nuer. That could even make the case worst that this. Suggest what is your contribution as an element to Murle Community? Are you supporting Renegade Yau-Yau or Govt? If David Yau-Yau please joint. if Govt.post positive contribution

Murle asshold,you are the one who’s hyena because all murle eat hyena meat.Listen here"now you are celebrating but soon you will mourn forever my friend.Look,all your mother fuckers MPS are summons for nothing.And remember,we the Nuer are able to disarm murle within one month if the stupid government allowed us to do so.But this time we must do something not to let this such incident to happen.

Madiit
Don’t even thinks of disarming us by force mother fucker. How many times the disarmament had been carried out in murle land? We don’t have any gun left, but if you want ri play dirty game then come and disarm us by force

Murle agent,
It is not difficult to disarm you by force and shoot those who try to resist disarmament. But it is painful hearing your usual cries to the UN and international community’s human rights groups that you are being killed. Your community is like a stupid child among several good children in South Sudan.

my dear friend don,t wast ur time chattingwithjebeagent,mother fucker don,t u know u are abducted dinka or nuer u luk at ur self and how clever u are compare to other jebe u can satisfy that u re from mighty nuer or dinka there is no jebe like that pliz don,t be hostile to ur pple ,i would like to tell mr cow boy n his illiterate gen chief of staffs to give guns to mighty lou to disarm those ungly

i think u r educated. because following your comment has sown that u have high reasoning capacity. not like those who have nothing to say rather than insult.
i just want to ask them a very simple question....
what is the relationship between your insults and the killing of the innocent people. have you realized that we have lost them and reduced in numbers? pliz focus on how to reduce death rate.

Murle Agent
Your witch thinking cannot help you, how can you insult Nuer and Dinka and this are the liberators who liberated you from the arab hand. Arab use to fuck ladies and men in Pibor. Nuer and Dinka are the husban for arab, how do you compare yourself with Nuer and Dinka.

Zeki nonsense, Murle were liberating Nuer and Dinkas from those community who in rank of high command death in war like Murle if it’s Nuer you were fight South Sudanese because of Leadership but ever Murle did that, most of educated people death in war from Murle community either’s Dinka or Nuer. Also keep in your mind that never one sexually abuse Murle nor Arabs or British accept Durin

Tong dut, What do you mean pliz if you dont mind? you mean murles can finish who in south sudan if it is the matter of amnesty made the president not temper with the rebellion, pliz adjust what you said is not true totally.

the world shouldn’t heed any of these propaganda reports.what actually is happening in Murleland is the execution of genocide in the name of disarmament, chasing Yau Yau, and protecting civilians ! Murle children,women and elderly people are massacred indiscriminately and wrong reporting is fed to the world.UN will be responsible for the extinction of Murle community.No one’s protecting tiny Murle

BIG FOOL Kuol Manyang, the garbage collector at the used to old garages in Jonglei malakal should be fired seriously and they put A nuer Governor. why always Dinkas Governing Jonglei
KUOL MANYANG to be fired only is the solution.
Weak leadership is proven by him.

Mi diit, your idiot person how many times you jongous disarm Murle community? NO one communities in South Sudanese many times disarms like Murle what you calling for are colonialism, brutal killing, sexual missed conduct and abuses of Murle people I am condemning strongly. Look if Murle were having Weapons better to declare war against tribalism government of Salva Kiir, Riek Machar and Kuol Many

machar should summon weak SPLA not murle leaders
how much the #s of weak SPLA whom were escorted lou nuer and run away as rats
why murle attacked nuer and not dinka
this enthralment made by dinka to get ride of both nuer and murle

Gumbula Junior:Guzul! Zeelu.Stupid.Jebe ’ve been Arabs’ servants for so many years.Tell me if we didn’t occupy your lands for two week!? You left your land for us and ran to UNIMISS for helps.Jebe/Murle are the most uggliest creatures in the world.
The Nuer Empire

@nuer empire
hey....’yiel nyimor gari..’Jebe are the most organized and bravest plain nilotes ever lived.we did not run to refugees and ethiopian jungle for refuge like food lovers...’Jonkoz’ but your murlephobia in u shall finish u one by one. u land grabbers,armed gangs in the name of ur false prophet...’ngun-yeil’ and murderer ..Riak lavaric.

People like to talk about murle because their name is sweet on their mouth.
The problem is not murle but the problem is our faild corrupt government.
They did little to protect the volunerable citizen and to stop the activities of yau yau who armed the murle tribe.

Bolingo, I agree with you 100% brother. Murle is not a problem in Jonglei state. The problem is the Governor and the corrupt Govt. in Juba. The way the leadership is distributed and the lost of finances, luck of leadership and theft is what is killing our nation. Now the whole Govt. have to cry to the Minute Tribe of Murle . Please, Grow up! the president jump from one plan to the other

with No success and now we have to evert the whole Nation’s eyes to Murle. The firing of the Governors including reliving of great generals like Mobutu would’ve started from Jongolei State Governor. Kual M. Juk have no good leaership quality. He’s left only coz he’s a Dinka and a murderer!!!..

Bolingo
You Murle are backward community in a whole Sudan. Yes 80% of the Jonglei State mess are indeed primarily causes by Murle and remaining 20% by our cousins D---A indirectly. Since the disarmament that took place last year, Murle youth have never taken a day off from attacking their Neighbours. They have attacked Dinka-Bor 7 times and Lou 4 times this year alone, we have records evidences f

Bolingo, it is not that the murle name is sweet but you know what, murle like killing themselves like chickens, let me tell govt can do nothing if murles doesnt stop raiding some every now and then, security begin from one house to another.

the world shouldn’t heed any of these propaganda reports.what actually is happening in Murleland is the execution of genocide in the name of disarmament, chasing Yau Yau, and protecting civilians ! Murle children,women and elderly people are massacred indiscriminately and wrong reporting is fed to the world.UN will be responsible for the extinction of Murle community.No one is protecting Murle.

BIG FOOL Kuol Manyang, the garbage collector at the used to old garages in Jonglei malakal should be fired seriously and they put A nuer Governor. why always Dinkas Governing Jonglei
KUOL MANYANG to be fired only is the solution.
Weak leadership is proven by him.

Dearest, actually what had happen in MurleLand is bad even for myself I feel not good, but who recommended Mr. Machar to summoned Murle Leader, it is in-possible for such a people who does bad things during war time are not suppose to to be given a very complicated work, nothing they can do on it.

Dr.Silent killer
The GOSS wanted every single criminal Murle to be a clean person at this time, if they fail to do so, then someone else must clean them. What had happened last year at MurleLand was just a first warning.

It really death decision for summoned the murle community for they are rebellion as David insist in bush and refused the amnesty that was stablished by the president, leave them they will die in the forest like rebelion die recently bse of their refusal to come back.

Let them be convience by vice president because he is the one who train all the tribe in south sudan how to the other community in 1991 shame on you MR Riak you are A right person to bring peace between those communities in south sudan we are just wait for you to face justic.

What did we say last time when you idiots decided to wage war on Murle? That payback will be to high, right? God is punishing you people for all the wrong doings you have caused not only in South Sudan but everywhere in the world. God created you Dinka by mistake. You have no human heart at all.

This killing is a big blow to our government and unmiss. I am asking in my capacity as a citizen of south Sudan, what is the position of the government regarding yau yau? What is the position of murle leaders both in juba and bor? What do they propose the government to do?

The Murle was/is once non productive/sterile characterized for the tables of looting,abduction,killing,stealing and raiding,but is today condemned around the country by South Sudanese from all walks of life.Combined with their outstanding sterility/non productivities in Pibor County,Murle are highly exceptional popn with the above mentioned characteristics exceptionally high! Cont.....

It is a well-known fact that Murle have been increasing thier population through abductions of children from their neighbours and any child grown from Murle are uncertain quality because they are not ’true-to-type.’ They vary for example in their habit of productivity,quality and the time required for them to start producing their own offsprings.Most of children with true Murle DNAs turn infertile

Most Murle girls are therefore not recommended for marriege although they can be used for leisure times.Researches are still going on to find the great evidents to end thier problems either to select their best hybrids and breed them with Dinka,Anyuak,Shilluk and Nuer hybrids that are known to have hybrids.Very little is known about productivities in Pibor County since one woman has so many husban

Very little is known about productivities among Murle inhabiting Pibor County since one woman has got so many husbands(a wife is shared like a food).To end conflicts with their neighbours,1.They should be medically tested for their sterility problems 2 should be treated with their chronic diseases 3 those with true-to types should interbreed with non Murle and their population be considered Murle.

4 disarm them upto their teeth 5 arrest and kill Yau Yau 6 Jail Ismail Konyi 7 introduce christianity to them 8 introduce schools 9 build good roads and water services for them 10 Build Hospitals for them 11 give them some higher posts in the gov’t though 0.00001% know how to read and write
The Nuer Empire

These killings will never stop unless the Mighty Nuer Warriors of Lou Nuer and the very tiny Murle are given at least three months to resolve their issues in warfields.
Until the Mighty Nuer Warriors occupy the Murleland for good as they did to coward Anyuakl, Burunl..., the Murle will never stop their cowardice tactics of hit and run.

Murle are finishing without them knowing. Hundreds of them are dying in the bushes while escaping from disarmament. Others are waiting to be shot by SPLA as rebels or as armed civilians refusing to disarm. Other communities are smart and have given their guns to the SPLA. The Murle think they are brave by dying every day. What a stupid little child.

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